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Word: bunnyhug (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Usage:

...After all, the world is wide, and intelligent thought will readily supply . . . well-sounding names which do not suggest the character of an operation or disparage it in any way and do not enable some widow or mother to say that her son was killed in an operation called "Bunnyhug" or "Ballyhoo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: Operation Smack | 2/9/1953 | See Source »

...Army Chief of Staff, back in Washington after a trip to the Far East, blamed bad reporting, defended Operation Smack as "sound and legitimate." There would be, he said, "many more like it." It'was a safe bet that next time someone would remember what Churchill said about Bunnyhug...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: Operation Smack | 2/9/1953 | See Source »

...betide,' 'Massacre,' 'Jumble' ... After all, the world is wide, and intelligent thought will readily supply an unlimited number of well-sounding names which ... do not enable some widow or mother to say that her son was killed in an operation called 'Bunnyhug' or 'Ballyhoo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Readable History | 11/26/1951 | See Source »

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